glamorize
Frequently Asked Questions
- Some war films show the agony of war, while others glamorize it.
- I try not to glamorize the past when I write historical fiction.
- She accused the media of glamorizing the life of a pop star.
Example Sentences
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When I interviewed him for the first time in 2005, he insisted that fearless owners were every bit as important in preserving democracy as the reporters he and Hoffman helped glamorize.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
It didn’t valorize or glamorize the economic downturn; it just portrayed it in the way that the people who lived there experienced it.
From Salon • Jan. 27, 2026
Michael Mann’s Ferrari may glamorize speed, but Mann isn’t shy about showing its consequences.
From Slate • Nov. 27, 2023
But unlike DIS — who do so without discernible politics and tend to glamorize a sense of existential resignation — Kline is stridently and sincerely polemical.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023
“I suppose I did glamorize it a bit,” he admitted.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
